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Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:23:21 -0500

"Information is cheap, but meaning is expensive."

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:00:08 -0400

“Information is cheap, but meaning is expensive.”

- ~George Dyson

from Visual Storytelling: New Language for the Information Age by @MariaPopova

A wonderful short video about the effects of music on our soul...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:40:51 -0400

A wonderful short video about the effects of music on our soul and bringing us back “into it.”

“I figure right now the world needs to come into music.” ~Henry
From Alive Inside

"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and..."

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:06:26 -0400

“By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond winning. ~Lao Tzu”

- From a wonderful blog post by purposefulfairy titled “15 Things You Should Give Up to Be Happy.” ALL the advice in here is worth heeding to, and letting our subconscious muster through.

"We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other..."

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:57:07 -0400

“We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way… “”

- Sir Richard Dyson

Originally found from the99percent’s article: “What it takes to innovate: Wrong-thinking, tinkering & intuiting”

Love this - got it from Clean Program’s facebook page....

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:41:53 -0400

Love this - got it from Clean Program’s facebook page. Unfortunately, I can’t find the direct link anymore.

Reform Hero Takes on Corruption Thesalloniki

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:35:10 -0500

Reform Hero Takes on Corruption Thesalloniki:

I like the focus on at least some positive news coming out of the political mess in Greece..

European Union officials have nothing but praise for the mayor of the Greek city of Thessaloniki. Yiannis Boutaris has been pushing ahead with far-reaching reforms to undo the abuses of his predecessors and has already slashed the city’s spending by 30 percent. He’s even asking the Germans for advice.

How the US Lost Out on Apple Work

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:41:10 -0500

How the US Lost Out on Apple Work:

The president’s question touched upon a central conviction at Apple. It isn’t just that workers are cheaper abroad. Rather, Apple’s executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their American counterparts that “Made in the U.S.A.” is no longer a viable option for most Apple products.

Taken near Tromsø, Norway. These Northern light auroras were...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:42:08 -0500

Taken near Tromsø, Norway. These Northern light auroras were triggered by a coronal mass ejection, or CME (cloud of superheated gas hurled from the sun), that hit our planet Tuesday morning. Doesn’t look real, does it?

I wish we could take a picture out of Holland’s book. The...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:37:10 -0500

I wish we could take a picture out of Holland’s book. The whole country is designed with bikes explicitly in mind. The entire country is connected and accessible by bike with specifically designed safe bike lanes. It’s not just about changing the mindset, it’s also about changing the entire way we think of urban planning as well as our culture into a culture of bikes as the main form of transportation.

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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:16:04 -0500

"Without clarity everything we do is either an attempt to gain it or a stab at the hope that we are..."

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:43:23 -0500

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Without clarity everything we do is either an attempt to gain it or a stab at the hope that we are moving in the right direction.

Almost every business I’ve ever worked with, including my own, struggles with this idea. But, until we are really clear and inspired by why we do what we do, whom we do it for and how to do it with complete and utter honesty – little else matters.

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- The Single Greatest Factor of Success in Business by John Jantsch

“Life is a sport. Make it count.” Genius tagline -...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:37:06 -0500

“Life is a sport. Make it count.”

Genius tagline - and the beginning of a very interesting ad campaign for Nike.

Oh and the Fuelband, which is what they’re hyping here, looks promising.

"So the thinking has to continually be… How can I integrate social into my traditional media so I can..."

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:36:50 -0500

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So the thinking has to continually be… How can I integrate social into my traditional media so I can make it easy for the crowd and tribes to share my content and brand?

It is time to let your content be “free” and “searchable”.

As traditional media becomes social, all media will just be “media”

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- Jeff Bullas

The Vanishing Culture Project’s mission is to preserve...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:24:29 -0500

The Vanishing Culture Project’s mission is to preserve global diversity through documenting threatened and traditional lifestyles.

Experts say that ever two weeks a unique language disappears with it’s last surviving speaker (Taken from vcproject.org)

"We don’t often take time to think about soup — or as they say in Spanish, sopa — in our busy,..."

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:34:02 -0500

“We don’t often take time to think about soup — or as they say in Spanish, sopa — in our busy, Internet-obsessed lives, but we should. It there any food so widely loved and eaten, so simple or so — dare we say it — inherently democratic?”

- Why We’re Supporting SOUP Day (via buzzfeed

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Flavorwire yesterday featured iconic black and white photos that...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:49:24 -0500

Flavorwire yesterday featured iconic black and white photos that have been recolored. I recognized all of them, except for this one, whose tag-line particularly caught my attention. Does America still have the highest standard of living? I think that would depend on how you define standard of living, and of course, if you don’t account for the huge growing disparity in living standards.

These leads me to ask the questions: has it always been like this? Or are we just more acutely aware of it? I know data would lead us to believe that it’s growing, but, come on, one can make data prove or show anything.

How A Niche Newsletter Grew to 1MM Subscribers

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:51:53 -0500

How A Niche Newsletter Grew to 1MM Subscribers:

Love Tasting Table! CEO Geoff Bartakovics talks about how he grew a niche newsletter into one million subscribers - “the de facto insider’s guide to adventurous dining.” In the video on Mashable he also talks about how a brand can distinguish itself from a crowded market. Words to the wise for all entrepreneurs

Happiness = Wanting what we have / having what we want

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:29:52 -0500

As an aspiring entrepreneur, Chip Conley has been an inspiration to me for a few years. Founder of the Joie de Vivre boutique hotel chain (Conley should get props alone for coming up with a fantastic name for a hotel chain), Conley has also written several books on the need for creating a business model driven by our need for meaning, a philosophy by which he has built his company on.

Conley’s newest book just came out this month and is called “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness and Success.” I love the concept of emotional equations that Conley has come up with. In his book, Conley astutely reduces various driving emotions in our lives - anxiety, happiness, fear into simple equations that we can digest, derive meaning out of and hopefully apply to our lives.

One of my favorites, and the one he talks about in a recent HuffPo article is the quote for Happiness:

“Happiness.. is defined by “wanting what we have” divided by “having what we want.”he numerator of this equation is all about practicing gratitude, finding the time to really want we have rather than take it for granted. A daily offering is one means of doing that. The denominator — having what we want — is the act of pursuing gratification. When we jump on that never-ending treadmill of aspiring to have what we want in life, it can create a momentary adrenaline high but it also can distract us from all that we already have in our lives. Some dictionaries define “pursuit” as “to chase with hostility.”

In the HuffPo article, Conley also talks about daily rituals - but ones that “serve us” in our daily and personal lives - this is something I’m definitely thinking about especially as the new year starts off. Here’s some food for thought from Conley:

“Whether we’re conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals including when we eat our meals, how we shower or groom or how we approach our daily descent into the digital world of email communication. Our habits comfort us, much like the Balinese feel reassured by their morning offerings. But have you ever taken an inventory of your daily rituals and how they’re serving you? And, have you ever imagined what daily rituals could make you a better leader or a happier person?”

By the way, Conley’s website for the book is also very cool. (the images in this post are from that site)

Chip Conley - Emotional Equations from ISHOTHIM on Vimeo.

Ai Weiwei Piles 1,200 Bikes On Top Of Each Other, For Dazzling...

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:05:01 -0500

Ai Weiwei Piles 1,200 Bikes On Top Of Each Other, For Dazzling Effect

The Taipei Fine Arts Museum hosts a large-scale exhibition of the Chinese dissident artist with his new work, “Forever Bicycles.”